linux-sg2042/arch/alpha/include
Andrea Parri 472e8c55cf locking/xchg/alpha: Fix xchg() and cmpxchg() memory ordering bugs
Successful RMW operations are supposed to be fully ordered, but
Alpha's xchg() and cmpxchg() do not meet this requirement.

Will Deacon noticed the bug:

  > So MP using xchg:
  >
  > WRITE_ONCE(x, 1)
  > xchg(y, 1)
  >
  > smp_load_acquire(y) == 1
  > READ_ONCE(x) == 0
  >
  > would be allowed.

... which thus violates the above requirement.

Fix it by adding a leading smp_mb() to the xchg() and cmpxchg() implementations.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519291488-5752-1-git-send-email-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-23 08:38:16 +01:00
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asm locking/xchg/alpha: Fix xchg() and cmpxchg() memory ordering bugs 2018-02-23 08:38:16 +01:00
uapi/asm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha 2018-02-02 13:46:21 -08:00